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HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx Windows 11 Bios InsydeH20 Rev 5.0 version F.28 Has PCIe Intel MEMPEC1J016GAH Optane drive and 2.5" solid state drive

Both show as Non-RAID Physical disks in BIOS / UEFI Devices There is no option to disable either in BIOS Running Intel Rapid Storage App shows Optane as disabled. The drive does not show up in windows explorer and shows as unformatted in disk management

From everything I see, this device is not being used for anything, but when I remove it and boot, I get a message that no OS is found. My ultimate goal is to add a new NVME drive but my immediate goal is to just remove this drive and still be able to boot. All information I have been able to find indicate I need to disable the Optane drive with Intel App, but it already shows as disabled. Any suggestions on what I need to do? Thank you

disk partition

Optane setting

PhilC
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Looks like ChanganAuto is correct that HP BIOS is garbage and does not allow what I am looking to do. To close this out, I created a windows restore usb drive, removed both existing hard drives, put the new NVME drive in, installed windows there, put the 2.5" SSD back in, and am now running without the Optane drive. Thank you everyone for taking a look.

PhilC
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Maybe the bootloader is in that drive, so when you remove it it says no OS. once my system reserved partition too moved to my other drive, and i had to perform a clean install. But this can't be the case as you said it is unpartitioned.

If you can, attach a screenshot of you disk management pls. it will help diagnose the issue further.

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Your system reserved partition is missing, which gives a hint that it may be on the other drive. Even though it says its unallocated, it still could contain data. It has happened to me a lot (specially in my USB)

What you have to do to fix

https://www.easeus.com/partition-manager-software/clone-and-move-system-reserved-partition-to-another-drive.html Refer this link and see how to Clone your system reserved partiton from one drive to another. There is a possibility of this working, whereas the cloning mostly doesn't end up sucessfull but cause more problems.

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